Kansas City Area
The Kansas City area serves up some of the most incredible contrasts. Cosmopolitan Kansas City communities and suburbs stretch across rolling hills and steep bluffs, while quiet river towns lounge on wooded banks of the Missouri River. Here’s the place to indulge your taste for variety. From first-class dining and professional theater to hot concerts and first-rate sports. Explore history and take in the museums. Or take home your own treasure from a wealth of shops, boutiques and antique stores. Get carried away at a festival. You’re bound to carry away some great memories when you visit the Kansas City region.
Lansing
The community of Lansing was incorporated as an official city of Kansas in 1959, but early development of the community can be traced to the 1860's when the United States…
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Fort Leavenworth
Fort Leavenworth was established on May 8, 1827, by Colonel Henry Leavenworth and 188 officers…
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Leavenworth, the "First City in Kansas," established in 1854 is located on the west banks…
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In the Bonner Springs area you'll find some of the hottest attractions in the Kansas…
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The Shawnee Indian tribe called this area home from roughly 1825-1860, before moving on to…
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There's a place on the northeast border of Kansas where the Missouri River meets the…
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Golf Courses
- 25 in Kansas City Area
Golf Tournaments
- 21 in Kansas City Area
Museums
- 21 in Kansas City Area
Festivals
- 19 in Kansas City Area
Car Shows
- 16 in Kansas City Area
Halloween
- 14 in Kansas City Area
The land where Leavenworth and Fort Leavenworth are located today was originally inhabited by the Kansa, Osage and Delaware Indians…
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